STAAR Practice Quiz 2

What is "urbanization"?

• A time period when many new industries were built in America
• When cities grow and more people move into them
• Increasing farming in rural areas
• People moving from other countries into American cities

The quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong is called

• logical.
• goodness.
• common sense.
• virtue.

At one time, the eastern part of the US was well-developed, but the western part (especially California) was not. What invention or development linked the 2 areas together and helped the west to grow?

• The airplane
• The telegraph
• The highway system
• The Transcontinental Railroad

While Andrew Jackson was president, many Native Americans were forced off their land by a law called the Indian Removal Act of 1830. When the Indians moved, it was called the

• Trail of Heartbreak
• Trail of Tears
• Road to Glory
• March to Freedom

The idea that citizens have the right to privacy and to be free from government control is called

• Minimum Government Intrusion, also known as Laissez Faire
• right to privacy
• the 4th amendment
• the Bill of Rights

What was the law that set up how the US territories could grown and expand and how those territories could become states?

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• Law of the Northwest Territory
• State Ordinance Law of 1787
• Free Enterprise Law

Many people thought that slavery should be done away with and started a social/political movement to end slavery. What was this movement called?

• The Free Citizen Movement
• End Slavery Now Movement
• Abolitionism
• The Right to Vote for All Movement

When goods are prevented from going into or out of an area, what is it called?

• Abolition
• Blockade
• Siege
• Trade block

When people or a person refuses to buy certain goods or shop in certain stores, it's called

• a boycott.
• goods refusal.
• exercising your rights.
• free enterprise.

An economic system back in colonial days when England controlled all trade and business was called...

• free enterprise.
• socialism.
• mercantilism.
• lack of choice.